Ecclesiastes 5:2
Do not cause your mouth to hurry, and do not let your heart hurry to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and you on the earth, therefore let your words be few.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
3For the dream has come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.
Cross References
Genesis 18:30And he says, “Please let it not be displeasing to the Lord, and I speak: perhaps there are found there thirty?” And He says, “I do not do [it], if I find there thirty.”
Genesis 28:20And Jacob vows a vow, saying, “Seeing God is with me, and has kept me in this way which I am going, and has given to me bread to eat, and a garment to put on—
Leviticus 5:4Or when a person swears, speaking wrongfully with the lips to do evil, or to do good, even anything which man speaks wrongfully with an oath, and it has been hid from him—when he has known then he has been guilty of one of these;
Judges 11:30And Jephthah vows a vow to YHWH and says, “If You give the sons of Ammon into my hand at all—
Psalms 115:3And our God [is] in the heavens, || All that He has pleased He has done.
Proverbs 20:25A snare to a man [that] he has swallowed a holy thing, || And to make inquiry after vows.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:2-4
A Caution to Worshippers. 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. 3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words. Solomon's design, in driving us off from the world, by… Read the whole commentary →